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Object #     2014-49/1
Object name     sxaYs, Basketry Hat, Baseball Cap
Culture of Origin     Lummi
Maker or Artist     Bill Tsi'li'xw James
Materials     Cedar Bark, Artificial Sinew
Techniques     Plain Plaited, Twined
Dimensions     H: 5 in, W: 7 x 7.7 in, L: 8 x 11 in
Exhibit Label    

"Usually today [people] buy their material, they buy their bark already cut nearby... They don’t know that the true art of gathering the material. What I do is when we go into the woods, I teach the young people the way my grandma Auntie taught me. You approach the tree and you have to ask her for her bark."
Tsi’li’xw (Bill) James, Lummi

Source     Ms. Ellen Ferguson
Credit     Gift of Ellen Ferguson


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